Imperfect reconciliation in anglophone southeast Asian novels (1989-Present) di Tse, YN

“...As an attempt to address this critical lacuna, my thesis examines four Anglophone Southeast Asian novels on four conflicts: Tan Twan Eng’s <em>The Gift of Rain</em> (2007) on the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s <em>The Sympathizer</em> (2015) on the war in Vietnam, Timothy Mo’s <em>The Redundancy of Courage</em> (1991) on the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, and Bonnie Etherington’s <em>The Earth Cries Out</em> (2017) on the ongoing conflict between Indonesia and its annexed territory, West Papua. ...”